Bill Text: OR HB3017 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to debit cards used to disburse government benefits; declaring an emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB3017 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB3017-Introduced.html

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     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
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LC 2080

                         House Bill 3017

Sponsored by Representative GORSEK; Representatives BARTON,
  FAGAN, FREDERICK, GREENLICK, HOYLE, KOMP, WITT

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requires financial institution that has contract with state
agency to disburse government benefit to individual by means of
debit card to disclose fees for using debit card or in connection
with debit card to individual and state agency.
  Becomes operative 91 days after effective date of Act.
  Declares emergency, effective on passage.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to debit cards used to disburse government benefits; and
  declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) As used in this section:
  (a) 'Financial institution' has the meaning given that term in
ORS 706.008.
  (b) 'State agency' means any state department, division, bureau
or other agency or body headed by an elected or appointed state
officer or member of a board or commission.
  (2) A financial institution that contracts with a state agency
to disburse a government benefit to an individual by means of a
debit card shall:
  (a) Disclose in a clear and conspicuous manner all fees the
individual or the state agency must pay to use the debit card or
in connection with the debit card to the individual that receives
the debit card and to any state agency with which the financial
institution has a contract to disburse government benefits by
means of a debit card.
  (b) Report to the state agency by the first day of January,
April, July and October of each calendar year the total amount
the financial institution or an affiliate or agent of the
financial institution collected from fees for using or in
connection with the debit card.
  (3) A state agency may adopt rules to implement this
section. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + Section 1 of this 2013 Act applies to a
contract that a state agency first advertises or otherwise
solicits or, if the state agency does not advertise or solicit
the contract, to a contract the state agency enters into on or
after the effective date of this 2013 Act. + }
  SECTION 3.  { + (1) Section 1 of this 2013 Act becomes
operative 91 days after the effective date of this 2013 Act.
  (2) A state agency may adopt rules or take other actions that
are necessary to enable the state agency to exercise, on and
after the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this
section, all of the duties, functions and powers that section 1
of this 2013 Act confers on the state agency. + }
  SECTION 4.  { + This 2013 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2013 Act takes effect on its
passage. + }
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